Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychologists say upwardly mobile Americans who turn to crack share personality traits that may make them vulnerable to the drug's siren call. Dr. Jeffrey Rosecan, director of the Cocaine Abuse Treatment Program at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, sketches a profile of the typical crack user: a man in his 30s or 40s, single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation...
...bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after wrecking his car, spends a night with a farm couple who have a beautiful daughter living in the attic. Only one problem: when he touches the girl, her skin starts to dissolve, revealing a rotting corpse...
...with the Big One. "What was foremost in many people's minds," says filmmaker Gina Blumenfeld, "was the fact that the San Francisco quake could have just as easily happened here." Residents stocked their homes with bottled water, canned food, batteries and first-aid supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling iron says she is looking for a battery-operated hair dryer that can be used if electricity...
...guests have gathered on Indian Island off the coast of Devon, England, ostensibly to enjoy a quiet weekend with a host whom none of the invited can clearly remember, the mysterious Mr. Owen. Their trip takes a turn for the worse when the Butler (Tom Tremoulet) plays a record in which "Mr. Owen" accuses each of the assembled company of murder and promises that they will pay for their crimes...
...obviously very difficult, particularly in my field, to turn an offer from Harvard down," said Goldin. "Harvard would be a perfect place for me. Cambridge would be a very good place...